Comments on: Hing Won’s New “Roast Pig Over Rice” Might Be the Best Pork Dish in Midtown

By: Hing Won | Foodventure

Hing Won | Foodventure — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:30:58 +0000

[...] Zach at Midtown Lunch posted about the “Roast Pig over Rice” I knew that was the type of dish I would like and [...]

By: adamprato

adamprato — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:55:44 +0000

1:1 meat to fat? Did I get some lean pork from Kar Won? I separated out some of the fat when I was eating to see if I was nuts. Mine had maybe an 1/8th inch layer of fat on the edge 9including the skin, and maybe a 16th inch layer in between the lighter meat and the darker meat sections of the meat. And, it looked a lot like above.

(unless you mean 1:1 meat/fat calorie wise)

By: Chocobunny

Chocobunny — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:51:43 +0000

I had the roast pig on the Thursday before the long weekend and had a portion twice the size as the pic. I also was there at 11:30. It was beyond my expectations, very moist, crispy, and definately a one to one meat to fat ratio. The sauce was delicious. I recommend going early.

By: Wangsta

Wangsta — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:24:41 +0000

So I have been a big fan of Hing Won for some time, but hot damn- this roast pig dish is a whole new level of AWESOMENESS. The skin was perfect, the meat was succulent, and I could not stop sighing with satisfaction. I used to live in Taipei so am well versed in Asian lunchtime street food, and that rivaled some of my bestest meat memories.

Another underappreciated gem at Hing Won- the baby chives with pork (also a handwritten sign). Beware of the GI consequences, but its worth it.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:19:56 +0000

For now, I’ll stick to my earlier comments:

Tom

June 15th, 2009 at 12:38 pm

It is good, but not great. There was a little bit of crispy skin on some of the pieces, but not enough. It was a little tough too, they should have cooked it a lot longer. It can’t compete with szechuan gourmet’s pork belly, but it is a little cheaper and a lot closer so I may get it again.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:34:39 +0000

Maybe Zach can send Mrs Zach in next time to obtain the lunch

Or somebody less well known and unimportant, like maybe Wayne

By: BankBank

BankBank — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:18:30 +0000

My coworker got this today after I e-mailed this post around. He said that the portion was much smaller than pictured here and the experience fell short of what Zach described.

Is it possible Hing Won knew it was Zach when they prepared his portion?

By: Yvo

Yvo — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:45:19 +0000

Oh, I forgot to ask about the sauce – I usually get this and it comes with a dark brown sauce, like hoisin sauce almost but slightly thinner?

And thank you to everyone for reminding me, my mom alternates and calls this fau yuk (fire meat) or siu yuk (burn? meat). My Chinese isn’t that great, haha… I’m just a jhuk sing :P

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:17:25 +0000

Sadly, when I got there at ~1:30 to retry the roast pig, they were out. It’s the ML effect!

By: Gordoneats

Gordoneats — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:06:06 +0000

@ JustNancy: Oops! True.